Tornadoes
Week 1: During week 1, the students researched tornadoes (how they are formed, where they occur the most, and what season). The students also read non-fiction text about tornadoes, created a paper, and kept a portfolio of all their work.
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Cover of Portfolio
The students created a portfolio out of folders. Then, they decorated the cover to match Natural Disasters.

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Portfolio
This is the inside to the portfolio. The students created different foldables to represent different things we learned in class.

guest_speake_hill_046.jpgThe students created a foldable for a KWL, safety tips, vocabulary, categories of a tornado, weather words, and Tornado Alley. They learned about the Fujita scale. Ask your child what this means....

guest_speake_hill_042.jpgThe students highlighted Tornado Alley on the United States map.



At the end of the week, The students looked at everything they learned and created a paper about tornadoes. The students also drew a picture to represent a tornado. We took that picture and blabberized it.

Click on the link blabberized to see some awesome presentations.